Can Collaborative Software Development Benefit from Synchronous Groupware Functions
Gerardo Canfora, Filippo Lanubile, Teresa Mallardo · 2003
Large enterprise organizations have software development teams distributed over multiple geographical sites. Because of distance, enterprises face challenges which are similar to those that open source software (OSS) projects have experienced in the past. OSS projects overcame the problem of distance through both development practices and Collaborative Software Development (CSD) platforms, wholly made up of asynchronous tools. However, generic groupware platforms offer both same-time and different-time options for communication and collaboration.